Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
~By Charlotte Church ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
~By Alan Jackson ~
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
~By Debby Boone ~
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
~By Jimmy Rushing ~
There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
~By Chris Burke ~
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
~By Pia Zadora ~
I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.
~By John Mayer ~
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
~By Mick Jagger ~
I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
~By Lata Mangeshkar ~
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
~By Cassandra Wilson ~
You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.
~By Jacob Lusk ~
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
~By Joe Strummer ~
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~By Patti Page ~
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
~By Elvis Presley ~
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
~By Marisa Tomei ~
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
~By Joe Cocker ~
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
~By Elvis Presley ~
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
~By Roy Haynes ~
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
~By Janine Turner ~
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
~By David Crosby ~
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
~By Jo Stafford ~
Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.
~By Graham Coxon ~
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
~By Kate Smith ~
Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
~By Simone Schwarz-Bart ~
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
~By Minnie Driver ~
My father started me singing in church.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
~By Taylor Swift ~
My heart is like a singing bird.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
~By Fantasia Barrino ~
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
~By James W. Black ~
I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.
~By Dinah Shore ~
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
~By Gary Cole ~
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
~By Emily Rossum ~
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
~By Charley Pride ~
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
~By Christina Milian ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.
~By James Durbin ~
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
~By Holly Near ~
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
~By Celine Dion ~
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
~By Aaron Carter ~
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
~By Linda Lavin ~
I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.
~By Pia Toscano ~
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
~By Hoagy Carmichael ~
I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.
~By Graham Norton ~
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
~By Namie Amuro ~
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
~By Brian McKnight ~
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
~By David Friedman ~
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
~By Roger Bannister ~
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.
~By Frankie Avalon ~
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
~By Jill Scott ~
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
~By James Stephens ~
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
~By Billie Holiday ~
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
~By Taylor Dane ~
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
~By Linda Lavin ~
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
~By Joss Whedon ~
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
~By LeAnn Rimes ~
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
~By Ali Akbar Khan ~
Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
~By Celia Cruz ~
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
~By Placido Domingo ~
When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.
~By Alison Moyet ~
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
~By Alison Moyet ~
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
~By Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz ~
If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
~By Taryn Manning ~
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
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